BAILLEULMONT COMMUNAL CEMETERY​​​Pas De Calais

​France

Location Information

Bailleulmont is a village 530 metres south of the main road from Arras to Doullens (N25). The Communal Cemetery is at the south-west end of the village, on the road to La Cauchie (D1); and in the east corner of it, to the right of the entrance, is a plot containing the graves of soldiers from the United Kingdom.

The graves in the British plot were made by Field Ambulances and fighting units in 1916-18. There are now 34, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site.

(According to Ward & Gibson (p 81), the Commission engraved on the headstone, at the insistence of the deceased’s father, the words: Shot At Dawn. One of the First to Enlist. He had apparently been caught in civilian clothes on board a Swedish ship about to sail from Dieppe. Official records have: ‘Died of wounds’, while his Death Certificate states: ‘Shot by sentence of FGCM for “Desertion” ‘. Source: Babington, pp 120-1). (Courtesy of Nicholas Philpot)